add configure option --enable-locale-charset, which adds
configure settings and an option-menu checkbox telling lynx if
it should use the function call nl_langinfo(CODESET) to find
the display character set rather than rely on the user to set
it via lynx.cfg or the options menu

add configure option --with-gnutls, to allow lynx to be
built with gnutls. Used gnutls 0.8.6 on Redhat 8.0 to login
at yahoo (gnutls is not very portable, so this is an
experimental option)

add FORCE_SSL_PROMPT setting to lynx.cfg, allowing for
manipulation in the options menu and (if LYNXRC_ENABLE is
set) via the .lynxrc file. This lets the user decide
whether to ignore prompting for questionable aspects of an
SSL connection. If the prompts are ignored, a corresponding
message is displayed

check for no common name (CN) in certificate when
connecting via SSL.

share SSL handle between HTTP.c and HTAAUtil.c so that
call of HTAA_shouldRetryWithAuth() from HTLoadHTTP()
updates the handle used in that function. This makes lynx
able to get the user/password prompt for
https://enter.nifty.com/iw/

modify version shown for SSL to be derived from runtime
SSLeay_version() function if linked with OpenSSL or SSLeay.
Add corresponding definition for GNU TLS

modify parse_style() function to operate on a copy of
its parameter, to avoid changing it. Otherwise, when
parse_style() is executed as a side effect of
start_curses(), its data is modified and not valid on
successive calls.

added hot.paste style which puts a right-arrow at the
UR corner (which is currently unused). Clicking on it
initiates a GOTO to the current selection (same as
PASTE_URL action). The hot.paste style is disabled unless
STYLES and CUT_AND_PASTE are both enabled, and the user
defines hot.paste in the ".lss" file

improve interaction with user:

allow more than two lines to be highlighted in
links

promote a few configure script defaults to "enable":
source-cache, prettysrc and read-eta.

add traces for lynx.cfg and .lynxrc to report lines
which are not found in the symbol table, to help diagnose
when a user adds lynx.cfg information to .lynxrc

modify dired support to allow sorting by a variety of
things in addition to the existing sort into files versus
directories. This is saved in ~/.lynxrc as
dir_sort_order.

modify LYdownload_options(), adding a link to view the
temporary file if the downloaded file is text or html.

modify LYwouldPush(), omitting the download page from
list of user-interface pages which should not be pushed
onto the history stack when visiting another page, such as
info or help. Otherwise the downloaded file is
discarded.

modify -dump, -source and related options which set
dump mode to also set -nopause

for configurations that provide scrollbar, add a
checkbox to the Options menu to enable or disable it

localized displayed strings used for popups in options
menu

split up remove_file() in LYLocal.c so directory
removal is performed in a separate function
remove_directory(). Neither will perform an "rm -rf", but
only single operations "rm" and "rmdir". The original
behavior can be obtained by setting RMDIR_PATH to point to
a script which does "rm -rf" in lynx.cfg .

use keycode bound to ^Q to control whether table cells
are centered. The command-line -center option also controls
this behavior.

add SHOW_KB_NAME to allow user to decide whether to
display "KB" or "Kib" or even "Kilobytes" for the progress
message

modify prompt for file- or directory-name in
rename/move operation to provide a default based on the
selected file/directory

add popen-based support for cut/paste. This is a
slightly reworked patch to GNU readline. If RL_PASTE_CMD
and RL_CLCOPY_CMD are defined in the environment, lynx will
use them as commands to do cut&paste. The simplest such
commands could just store/retrieve things from
/tmp/.clipboard_user-name; more advanced ones could use X
clipboard

improve interaction with other programs:

Change configure script so that dired support for
chmod, copy, mkdir, and touch to use built-in functions
rather than external programs

add check for broken ProFTPD 1.2.5rc1, e.g., at
ftp://ftp.oldskool.org/pub, and force a reconnection if an
error 550 is detected when doing RETR. This is ifdef'd with
BROKEN_PROFTPD and checks version

change default ftp mode to passive.

if ftp connection fails, automatically retry, switching
between passive and active modes. Do this retry switching
only when connecting to a different host.

modify configure check for tar to test several common
variants including star, modify makefile.in to use the
configured 'tar' program.

improve cookie support:

add FORCE_COOKIE_PROMPT setting to lynx.cfg, allowing
for manipulation in the options menu and (if LYNXRC_ENABLE
is set) via the .lynxrc file. This lets the user decide
whether to ignore prompting for cookies with invalid
syntax. If the prompts are ignored, a corresponding message
is displayed

revert 2.8.4dev.21 change to avoid truncating cookie
path. The server that wouldn't work with the current lynx
behavior is identified as
"Oracle_Web_Listener/4.0.8.2.3EnterpriseEdition".

modify to trim carriage-returns as well as line-feeds,
making it possible to share cookie files between platforms
that have different line-terminations.

improvements to debug/traces:

define additional -trace-mask option, 8=config

add environment variable LYNX_TRACE_FILE which, if
given, overrides the compiled-in value of Lynx.trace (or
LY-TRACE.LOG). This specifies the name of the trace file
relative to the home directory.

allow trace file to be written when one already
exists.

add command-line option --find-leaks to
disable the memory leak checking code, allowing one to
build an executable which is useful for both normal and
leak-checking.

improvements to scripting/logging:

implement a "set" command for command-scripts, allowing
the script writer to manipulate the sleep-times for
messages

implement an "exit" command for command-scripts.

stop reading from the command script when an
end-of-file is detected.

change LYKeycodeToString() to provide a default
translation for characters which are not key-symbols, etc.,
so they may be used in command scripts with the -cmd_script
option

Ports

modify configure script to accept
--with-screen=ncursesw, to build with the wide-character
version of ncurses

fix ifdef's for alloca(), e.g., on AIX 4

fix initialization of LYlines and LYcols for curses
configurations other than ncurses which implement pads

modify local directory sort by type to ignore leading
'.' characters when looking for filetype

WIN32:

several small fixes to HTFile.c to make directory
listings work properly on win32, e.g., stat'ing a directory
with a trailing slash failed.

change HTURLPath_toFile() to keep local URLs distinct
from remote ones, so win32 version will not display
misleading drive letter on ftp listings.

undef conflicting symbols "small" and
FILE_DOES_NOT_EXIST which are misdefined in Cygwin's w32api
headers

modify expansion of %s for WIN_EX EXTERN commands so
that short names (used when the command begins with an
uppercase character) are not quoted, and use backslashes.
The normal %s expansion uses forward slashes and may quote
the name if it contains a blank

rewrote function that gives the home-directory string,
adding checks for "My Documents" on Windows 2000, and
ensuring that the resulting directory actually exists.

modify LYGetHostByName() in HTTCP.c to use the threaded
_WINDOWS_NSL code for all Cygwin machines. The ability to
interrupt nameserver lookup has not worked in Win98 using
the Cygwin port, despite defining _WINDOWS_NSL. It looks
like the threaded code was only for WinNT. At least under
Cygwin, that code also seems to work fine under Win98

modify logic of HTDirEntry() to avoid storing a
trailing backslash (DOS-style path separator) in the anchor
URL for local directory entries

add -scrsize option and corresponding SCREEN_SIZE value
to lynx.cfg to allow lynx's screensize to be specified. To
display background color properly, this also requires a
patch to PDCurses:
http://www.t3.rim.or.jp/~patakuti/tmp/lynx/PDCurses-2.5.patch.resize
This requires PDCurses 2.5 and higher

DJGPP:

modified to use the configure script

support DJGPP's two forms of file addressing,
[a-zA-Z]:[/\\] and /dev/[a-zA-z]/

'z' can abort connection attempt as on UNIX.

fix inability to break out of a hung nameserver lookup
or hung connection attempt without aborting lynx
entirely.

added some fixes for "/" vs "\" handling in pathnames
so that non-DJGPP programs will see standard DOS pathnames
when called.

for DJGPP, escape all backslashes in commands given to
LYSystem() when a Unix-style shell is given in $SHELL

add malloc-sequence number to Lynx.leaks report, to help
with debugging

modify po/makefile.inn to substitute the PACKAGE and
VERSION strings into lynx.pot automatically, and to remove the
unused boilerplate header comment

change the install procedure for lynx.cfg to attempt to
update the file with the user's customizations if any, and to
save the old configuration information in a series, e.g.,
lynx.cfg-1, lynx.cfg-2, etc.

add configure options to link with dbmalloc and dmalloc
debugging libraries which offer different features than
--enable-find-leaks

collect names of lynx.cfg and .lynxrc variables into
LYrcFile.h, to simplify checks for matching spelling, e.g.,
against the values used in LYOptions.c